Davos 07: Inside or Outside the Tent?

I've picked up a little concern among some NGOs that they may be sidelined at this year's meeting. There are more than a dozen sessions on climate change, for example, but only a handful have an NGO representative on the panel, they say. The good news from their perspective? Politics and business have recognised the issue. The bad news? They see the issue being de-politicised and discussion being less diverse. It's what Simon Zadek of Accountability calls "painful mainstreaming".

And where is the development agenda of two years ago in the run up to the Gleneagles G8 Meeting? Certainly not as prominent as it was. (Certainly no sign of the protests of a few years ago, and the forum seems to be looking to the bloggers to provide an alternative perspective.)

Others dispute the claim and say that, in any case, NGOs have other platforms - what matters is that business and politics are starting to act.

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